BMJ  2007;335 (22 September), doi:10.1136/bmj.39343.610613.47

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Training our doctors

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We have pondered the BMJ's coverage of the UK's crisis in specialist training. Our critics might characterise it as too much too late: too much for readers outside the UK, too late to have influenced decisions being made behind closed doors and to mitigate some of the heartache, upset, and upheaval.

Amid the long list of factors that contributed to the tsunami of MMC and MTAS (well described by Madden and Madden recently: BMJ  2007;335:426-8 doi: 10.1136/bmj.39300.591632.DE) one factor has been studiously avoided in most discussions—medical immigration. Difficult though it is to raise, it cannot be ignored.

We decided a few months ago to commission a head to head debate on whether UK training posts should be reserved for UK graduates. Then a few weeks ago Graham Winyard, a former postgraduate dean, sent us an article on the same question. So this week we devote some space to . . . [Full text of this article]

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